1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 2489
For these ex-Ming officials who have not been in Haihan for a long time, the Executive Committee of course cannot blindly exert pressure. Can have goals to strive for.

"The situation in Zhaoqing Mansion, I believe everyone present here should know better than me. This is also the main reason for keeping everyone in office. Therefore, the country also needs you to contribute a lot to the governance of Zhaoqing in the future. As far as I know, Zhaoqing is temporarily managed by The management committee of the Guangdong and Guangxi regions is in charge, and the local administrative officer has not yet been established, but the candidates should be selected from the local grassroots officials, and I hope that everyone here can work hard to obtain such an opportunity!"

While speaking, Ning Qi looked around at the crowd, and saw that these officials showed more or less excited expressions on their faces, probably because they were also interested in the benefits he offered.

After Haihan annexed the Guangdong and Guangxi areas, in order to facilitate the implementation of control, the original state-level yamen was cancelled, and only the grass-roots county yamen remained, so there were a large number of vacancies for senior officials in the local area.These county magistrates are well aware of this situation, but they don't know what arrangements Haihan will make. Now that Ning Qi has spoken thoroughly, letting them know that he still has room for improvement, he will naturally not be willing to continue to be a little boy. county magistrate.

Just relying on the sense of responsibility to the country and the people may not be enough to give these officials enough motivation to move forward. After all, it has not been long since they changed their allegiance, and their sense of identity and belonging to Haihan Kingdom should not be enough.But if their work performance is linked with their personal future, perhaps the motivation to struggle will be more sufficient.

A briefing meeting like this was also held at the same time in several other meeting rooms of the Grand Chamber.In recent years, Haihan has annexed the territory of Ming Dynasty so fast that there is no time to train qualified local officials in advance, and can only continue to use personnel left over from the Ming Dynasty in most areas.However, these personnel are far from being able to reassure the executive committee in terms of loyalty or work ability, so they are organized to report to Sanya in batches, and through face-to-face contact, senior officials of the executive committee will personally give them advice labyrinth.

Of course, the executive committee has also learned about the situation of these officials in advance through the reports they submitted and other information channels. Officials with outstanding personal abilities and certain achievements in local governance have been secretly included in the investigation objects. , This debriefing can be regarded as a face-to-face assessment link.

Officials who can perform well during this period will be given the opportunity to stay in Sanya for a short period of further study.Moreover, the promotion method of local officials mentioned by Ning Qi is not false, if there are people with outstanding abilities, they may indeed be further promoted.After all, at least one-third of the civil and military officials currently employed by Haihan are from surrendered generals, and their special status and background will not affect Haihan's evaluation criteria for officials.

Ning Qi spent half a day discussing local governance measures with these officials. At noon, he wanted to have lunch with the county magistrates, but at this time someone came to inform him that Tao Donglai summoned the executive committee currently in Sanya We met at Fort Victory at once.

The Grand Council Hall was not far from Victory Fort, so Ning Qi handed over the work of greeting Zhaoqing officials to his secretary, and then returned to Victory Fort in a car that is very rare on the market.This new type of transportation has only officially become the passenger car of high-ranking officials in Haihan in the past two years. It is only provided to the officials who are in public office. For the public, it is still a rare commodity that is priceless.

"What's the rush?" When Ning Qi walked into the meeting room, seeing Tao Donglai, Bai Kesi, Yan Chujie and Tom Wang had already arrived, he hurriedly asked.

"Notify everyone to come back and see something good." Tao Donglai deliberately put off the air, and changed the subject: "Haven't you had lunch yet? Let's eat together first, and then go somewhere else."

Not long after, several other members of the executive committee in Sanya also arrived one after another, and everyone had a simple meal in the cafeteria in Fort Victory, and then drove to the place Tao Donglai mentioned.

The place Tao Donglai mentioned is actually not mysterious, it is a shooting range located deep in the Tiandu Industrial Zone.Usually, the new weapons developed by the ordnance industry department will be tested here, and the senior officials of the Executive Committee have also come here many times to observe the results of the ordnance industry department.

However, in the past, this kind of event was usually notified in advance, and such a temporary call rarely occurred. After getting out of the car, Ning Qi asked Bai Kesi: "Old Bai, is there any treasure that you are so anxious to show everyone today?" ?”

Beks smiled and said, "We have finally developed something that we have been waiting for for ten years."

With a rumbling sound, a machine with a strange shape drove down the soil slope next to the shooting range. This machine has no wheels, and it actually travels by the rotation of the left and right crawlers.On the crawler platform is a rotating fort like a turtle shell.The senior officials present could recognize at a glance that this should be the prototype of a tank.

"Good guy... Good guy! You really made it!" After seeing the steel monster, Ning Qi couldn't find the right words to describe his mood for a while, and could only sigh repeatedly.

And the people present who saw this thing for the first time all felt the same as Ning Qi, and some even couldn't help but swear.

The army department has already put forward an application to manufacture tanks many years ago, but due to various reasons, it has only stayed in the development stage for many years and failed to achieve real results.The design principle of the tank has long been known to the Haihan ordnance department, but there are still many technical difficulties to be overcome in order to manufacture this large-scale weapon that surpasses the times, and the engine is the first to bear the brunt.

Although the industrial sector has begun trial production of internal combustion engines ten years ago, due to the limitations of the manufacturing process, the engine power that can be manufactured is often only a few tens of horsepower at most.This kind of power is not a big problem for making cars, but it is far from enough to drive tanks.

According to the data of the ordnance department, a light tank with a design weight of only about 200 tons needs an engine with at least [-] horsepower to be barely enough.A breakthrough was finally made in engine manufacturing technology a few years ago, but the first batch of high-power engines built were all allocated to the Navy with more urgent needs to build a new generation of warships.

Although the army is upset, it can only swallow its anger. After all, Haihan has always given priority to sea power, and the needs of the navy also occupy a dominant position in the army.Moreover, based on the Army's current combat needs, it is actually difficult to use heavy weapons such as tanks. The symbolic significance of manufacturing tanks is far greater than the actual effect, so the relevant plans have been postponed indefinitely.

(End of this chapter)